Structure of the Knowledge Base

Introduction to the QNET Knowledge Base

The test cases are application centred, facilitating the identification of appropriate knowledge and advice for specific industrial purposes. They are organised around:

• Application Areas
• Underlying Flow Regimes

Application Areas (AC)

The application area section contains articles of specific interest to particular sector disciplines such as: Built Environment, Chemical and Process Engineering, External Aerodynamics, Turbomachinery, Combustion and Heat Transfer.

Each Application Area is comprised of Application Challenges (AC) which are realistic industrial test cases used to judge the competency and limitations of CFD for a given Application Area.

Underlying Flow Regimes (UFR)

These are generic, well studied test cases capturing important elements of the key flow physics encountered across the Application Areas.

Content of the Knowledge Base

The content of each Application Challenge (AC) test case and Underlying Flow Regimes (UFR) test case article within the Knowledge Base consists of an:

• Abstract - Summary of content
• Description - Introduction to test case and physical phenomena involved, (for ACs also practical importance and parameters of interest, and for UFRs review of previous studies).
• Test Case Studies - Description of test case experiments and CFD simulations (and provision of data and CFD results for ACs, and also for some UFRs)
• Evaluation - Comparison of CFD calculations with test case experiments
• Best Practice Advice

The AC articles are expected to have, and should contain, links to detailed data files for all experimental and CFD results according to the guidelines set out here. In the UFR articles it is sufficient to present the data as plots, although it is highly desirable to provide links to associated databases where these are available. The templates for compiling AC and UFR articles can be found here in both MicroSoft Word and Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

	Application Challenge (AC) template:	Word format	PDF format
	Underlying Flow Regime (UFR) template:	Word format	PDF format

For a full index of all the Application Challenge and Underlying Flow Regime test case articles within the Knowledge Base please click on the following links:

AC Index

UFR Index